There are three ways to enroll a recipient into a campaign: Enrollment Triggers, Email Lists or Manual Enrollment
Enrollment Triggers
Enrollment triggers are part of a campaign's general settings. To manage them, navigate to the Autoresponder home page.
Main Menu → Operation → Marketing → Email (tab) → Autoresponder
From there, click on a campaign's edit button. The triggers are listed in the general settings of the campaign.
The triggers are hooks to the shopping experience that allow for automatic enrollment to a campaign based on an event. There are five triggers.
- Abandon Cart – This trigger will enroll any abandoned cart with an email address into the campaign.
- Purchased Product – This trigger will enroll any customer making a purchase into the campaign. Enrollment Items can restrict enrollment.
- Auto Order Decline – This trigger will enroll any customer who has an auto order declined.
- Auto Order CC Expiration – This trigger will enroll any customer who has an auto order credit card expired.
- Auto Order Canceled – This trigger will enroll any customer who has an auto order canceled.
Enrollment Items
The enrollment items work in conjunction with the enrollment triggers. They are filters for the triggers. If you provide a list of items, then only events with those items will trigger an enrollment.
For example, consider the result if you add an item id, such as 'SOMEPDF' to the enrollment items field and check the enrollment trigger 'Purchased Product'. With that configuration, only purchases of SOMEPDF items will result in enrollment. This is useful if you wish to upsell certain items or provide item specific marketing material.
- Enrollment Items only affect triggers. Items are meaningless without triggers.
- Enrollment Items affect all triggers. There is no pairing certain items with certain triggers. If you need different items for your triggers, create separate campaigns.
- Zero Enrollment Items is the default. With this default, triggers will fire for all items. Remember that Enrollment Items act as filters.
You probably would not want to add any enrollment items to Auto Order triggers. That would cause those triggers to selectively fire, which would be undesired.
Email Lists
Email Lists are managed in a different part of the site. Navigate to Main Menu > Operations > Marketing > Email (tab) > Email Lists. By associating an email list with a campaign, the site will, on a regular basis, scan the list and enroll any new emails. Click on the edit button for a campaign to manage the Email Lists associated with it. The Campaign section of this documentation has additional tips and warnings about Email Lists.
Manual Enrollment
To manually enroll someone in a campaign, first navigate to the Autoresponder home page.
Main Menu → Operations → Marketing → Email (tab) → AutoResponder
From within the Administration section, click the Manual Enrollment link as shown below.
Manual enrollment is a two step process. Select a campaign on the initial screen. Selecting a campaign allows the site to compile a list of campaign steps. With this list, it is possible to add a new recipient at any point in a campaign.
When the next screen loads, fill out the fields to enroll a recipient.
The following describes each of the fields for the Manual Enrollment
Field | Description |
First Step | Select the step where the recipient will begin. This will typically be the start step, but there may be times when a recipient should be started mid-stream depending on the relationship with the customer. |
Email Address | The recipient's email address |
Display Name | The friendly name of the recipient. If this is unknown, then enter the email address here as well. The Display Name is required. |
Desired Format | Select HTML or TEXT. If text, the customer will not receive html emails. If HTML is selected, the decision is then left up to the settings for the email template. |
When finished, click the Enroll button to complete the enrollment.